Here is the news from our class,
Danielle – “This week in maths we learned about co ordinates and decimals.”
Jessica- “This week in writing we have completed a report on a science carousel we did on Wednesday.”
Darryn- This week we did writing on our science carousel. We did four activities so we had to write four sub headings in our report.”
Aurora – “This Friday I went to hot chocolate Friday because I was good and I am proud of my self . Good good job me.”
Billie- “This week we have been learning how to turn fractions into decimals. It was very fun and hard.”
Thank you to these children for volunteering to share their highlight of the week on the blog post.
As was mentioned we completed a four station Science carousel lesson on Wednesday afternoon. The learning intention was to find out about electrical safety and how to build a circuit.
Station 1 – Building a simple circuit. The children used the electricity kits in school to build a simple circuit with a battery, bulb, wires and a switch. When the switch was closed the bulb would light. Then we took the switch out of the circuit and they had to use a variety of different items (metal spoon, plastic spoon, peg, paper clip, balloon) to put into the circuit to see if the bulb would light. The children learned the vocabulary conductor and insulator.
Station 2 – Matching game. The children had to match photographs of different circuits to circuit diagrams. To be able to complete this they had to learn the electrical symbol for the various components.
Station 3 – The Electric Detective. This is a short film showing the dangers that electricity can pose when not used correctly. If you want to have a watch click on the link below.
Station 4 – Switched On Kids Website. The children used this website to learn about electrical safety as well as other facts and information about electricity, such as how it is made?, how do we get it into our homes?
http://www.switchedonkids.org.uk/
As you can see there was a lot of learning going on and the children were developing their collaboration, team work and problem solving skills, which are are all part of our focus from the Skills Framework for this term.
In Maths we have been converting decimals to fractions and looking at the second decimal place (hundredths). We have been working using pictorial guides and locating these on a number line. Our interactive Maths wall focused on strategies used in our Number Talks mental addition calculations. Some of us used partitioning, tower calculations, friendly numbers and so on. Next week the Number Talks focus will be subtraction. Have a go at this one and for an extra Dojo point post a response of the strategy you used.
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Have a lovely weekend
Mrs Currie
